STB 6.18.24

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And now, here are your hosts of Shooting the Breeze. Hello, hello, hello. Happy Monday, everyone.

Coming off a big Father’s Day weekend. I hope everybody had a great, relaxing weekend, all you dads out there. My name is Karen Murray, and welcome to Shooting the Breeze.

I am the lead instructor at Franktown Firearms, your one-stop shop for everything you need for your guns, ammo, accessories, range, time, whatever it is that you’re looking for, Franktown Firearms can provide that for you. We are conveniently located just east of the intersection of Highway 83 and Highway 86 in Franktown. We’re open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 6. You can reach us by phone at 720-770-7777.

If training is what you’re looking for, if you just want to get your concealed carry permit, we can help you with that. You can go to our website, franktownfirearms.com, and you can look on the calendar, and you will see there all the different classes that are offered. I personally teach Pistol I, Pistol II, but there’s other classes that our wonderful instructor, advanced, very advanced instructor, Cam, can provide you.

Those are the Pistol Carbine Skills Builder class and just the Pistol Skills Builder. Got a lot of great stuff on the horizon at Franktown, so check it out. If private training is what you’re looking for, you can reach me directly at karen.murray at franktownfirearms.com, and we can sort of develop a one-on-one plan for you.

Even just an hour and a half with me will kind of set you in the right direction and get you going on your firearms. Even if you’re completely new to it, you have no desire to get your concealed carry, you just want to kind of get familiar with guns, maybe have one for home defense, that kind of thing, so you can contact me directly for that. If you want to talk about anything today that I’m going to touch on, the studio line is 303-477-5600.

You know, I like to talk about stuff, and I do my preparation for this show starting Monday morning, and I’ve always done that because, you know, I want to make sure that the stuff that I’m talking about is rather up-to-date or as current as possible. But, you know, I get into some stuff, weeds. I get into the weeds.

My husband always says, you’re getting into the weeds. And I just kind of talk about whatever comes to mind or, you know, as I’m looking through the news, I kind of talk about whatever is kind of on my heart or things that I think are interesting or whatever. Sometimes I can’t think of a darn thing to talk about, and other days I have so much that I can’t fit it all into one hour.

So today was one of those days where I kind of left some stuff off at the end because I’ve got a lot of stuff to talk about. So anyway, back to Father’s Day, it’s kind of a joke. We talk about this a lot in our house, like every Father’s Day that rolls around.

So Mother’s Day versus Father’s Day. So on Mother’s Day, moms get flowers, and they get taken to brunch, and then they get taken to dinner, and mom doesn’t have to lift a finger for the most part. And then there’s Father’s Day.

You know, Dad gets to do the yard work and mow the lawn and do whatever he does, and then he gets to grill his own dinner. And it’s just kind of funny. So all you fathers out there, kudos to you, my husband included.

He’s a rock star, and, you know, he actually spent Father’s Day down at our daughter’s new house. Her and her fiance bought a house, and he was down there helping her paint and do cabinets and just some stuff that they need to get done before they move in. So happy Father’s Day.

Happy late Father’s Day to everybody. You know, Chuck Schumer, I saw a picture of him just this morning, and he could probably take some notes from dads who grill real food. Did you see the picture of him at his grill on Father’s Day? It had him standing there, you know, his smirky kind of a grin that he has, and he’s got these burgers on the grill.

He’s got burgers and dogs and whatever, but the burgers are raw, right? They’re all raw, and he’s got one slice of cheese on one burger, and the burger’s raw. So, oh, my goodness. I’m sure those got tossed in the trash, and his personal chef probably came in and took over and cooked the real food, but that’s just kind of funny that he posted that.

So it looks like we have a presidential debate coming up on June 27th in Atlanta. I’m sure you guys may have heard whispers about that. The debate rules have been agreed upon by Trump and Biden, and those rules include no opening statements.

Each candidate will have two minutes to answer a question from the moderators and one minute for a rebuttal, and their microphones are going to be muted when they’re not speaking. So Trump will be able to deliver his zingers like he always does. I’m sure you’ve all watched the debates in the past, and it is a little frustrating when the candidates won’t shut up and end up talking over each other, and, yes, that’s very frustrating.

However, considering the two progressive shills from CNN that they have moderating, I’m not so sure it’s going to be a fair and equal situation. Of course, they’re going to lob softball questions at Biden, which they always do, and they’re going to grill Trump on all of his indictments and the fact that he’s now a convicted felon on paper anyway. So it should be the clown show that we all expect it to be.

The moderators for the debate are going to be Jake Tapper and Dana Bash from CNN, so I’m certain they’ll be fair. They’ll be fair and unbiased, and, yeah, you can insert the big eye roll right here. Someone will probably have his or her finger on Trump’s mute button the entire time as soon as he starts to talk or to make a point or whatever.

They’ll just mute him and go on to the next question, and, yeah, I guess we’ll see. So the 27th for that. That’s going to be fun.

In some local news, when they’re talking about training, I had to pull up this story because I thought it was really interesting. Well, not interesting because this stuff happens all the time, but I wanted to talk about it. So Commerce City man shot and killed an intruder late Saturday night.

So not much is being reported about this incident other than the man was attacked by an unknown intruder, but on its face it appears as if this situation turned out exactly as it should have. You break into someone’s home in the middle of the night, and you can expect to get shot. That’s it.

That’s the way it’s supposed to work, right? I mean, wrong house. If you’re armed and you’re practicing your Second Amendment and you’re trained and everything else, wrong house, dude. So I was looking over some other local news, and I ran across this article, and this is complete departure from what I was just talking about, but the most annoying things that you can do at a restaurant.

And it got me thinking that I haven’t really done any bean steaming lately. I mean, a little bit, but this is stuff that steams servers’ beans. So we’re going to do some bean steaming.

This is a list taken from a poll of 1,000 restaurant workers, and here they are. The most annoying things you can do at a restaurant. Number one, say they won’t pay for a dish they didn’t like but they ate.

That’s number one. Ninety percent of the people said that. So there are people who do that.

Number two, they allow their children to roam freely. Again, 90% of the respondents said this. Number three, they debate menu prices with the staff, as if the staff has any control over how much the restaurant chooses to charge for any particular dish.

It’s just hilarious. Number four, they stay past the restaurant’s closing time. That’s got to steam their beans big time.

Number five, snap their fingers to get the waiter’s attention. Oh, I can imagine that doesn’t set well. And number six, they bring outside food or drinks into the restaurant.

So why would you do that, really? Number seven, they show up 15 minutes late to a reservation. I think that’s it, right? That’s about the max is 15 minutes. At 16 minutes, I think they give your table to someone else.

Number eight, they leave a mess at the table, such as spilled drinks or food crumbs. That’s always annoying, especially when you’re walking in as a new patron, you know, getting led to your table and you see a table that’s just got junk and trash and napkins all over the floor. That’s kind of gross.

And number nine, they occupy a table for an extended period during busy hours. I think we used to call that camping. So that’s very frustrating when they could have new tables that actually earn money, you know, the whole thing.

And then number 10 was flirt with the staff, which whatever. I guess that’s kind of a weird one because that’s just kind of a personal thing. It really has nothing to do with the restaurant itself.

But I wanted to share a personal story with you guys. It’s something that happened to me back when I was – I used to be a bartender and waited tables and stuff at this place called the Eyeless Park Saloon. Maybe you guys have heard of it.

So scammers came in and they say they found something in their food. So I’m going to talk to you about this whole finding something in your food. And I know this has happened, and I’ve heard stories about people finding, you know, a piece of a latex glove or a piece of bone or hair or whatever.

So this actually happened to me. So I was working the day shift and an elderly couple came in. I would say they were probably in their maybe early 70s roughly, somewhere around there.

And as the bartender on the day shift at this particular – it wasn’t huge on food. It was a bar. It was a nightclub, like a rock bar.

But we had a really great – one of the owners was the cook. And he was a really good cook, and he made really great green chili. So our burritos were very kind of popular back in the day.

So I took care of the entire bar, though. There was nobody else. I had no waitress.

It was just me. Okay. So this couple, they come in, and they sit in the farthest corner that you could reach in the bar.

Like I’m at one side of the bar, and they were at the other side and tucked way back in the corner, almost kind of in the dark, because, like I said, it was a rock bar. So that corner was kind of dark. So they ordered a couple of smothered burritos and some iced tea, and I brought them their food, and I went back to the bar to take care of the customers that I had there.

And about five minutes went by, and I get this big exaggerated hand signal from the guy, the husband, for me to go over there, and he’s waving me back there. And so when I got to the table, the guy had something in a napkin, and he had it in his hand, and he told me he had found this in his burrito. And he opened the napkin up, and I looked down, and it was this big bolt.

I’m not kidding you. It was a bolt. It was, like, an inch and a half long and maybe had, like, a five-eighths inch head on it.

It was huge. I mean, for being in somebody’s food, it was huge. Of course, I initially freaked, and I ran the plates back to the kitchen, and I told the cook what the guy had found, and he freaked out, and he looked around.

We both were kind of looking around the stainless steel shelving to see if anything had fallen out and if everything was structurally sound and everything was where it was supposed to be, and nothing was wrong with any of the supports or shelves. But regardless, we gave them new plates of food. We didn’t charge them anything.

So, in essence, they got four free burritos and iced tea. They left without paying a dime. And after they left, I was having a conversation with the owner slash cook, and we’re talking about it, and we concluded that there was absolutely no way that that bolt could have ended up in their food.

First of all, the cook took the bolt and he washed it off, so we were able to look at it and see it as if it, you know, had just been put in there, and it was brand new, people. It was brand new. It was shiny.

Nothing had come from food. This bolt was like it just came out of the hardware store bin. So I think we got scammed.

That’s kind of the conclusion that we reach is we were scammed. So these people probably pulled this at area restaurants as long as they could get away with it until, you know, area restaurants started talking to each other and was like, did you get these people in here, and are they kind of scammed? We think that that’s kind of what happened. But, of course, we don’t know.

Another thing that steams my beans with regard to the other side, not the servers but the other side as a customer, is the tipping situation. And I’ve seen lots of videos about this and the tipping, and I’ve seen a meme that says, you know, if I have to stand up to place my order, you’re not getting a tip. So when I go get something to eat, if I have to stand in line, you know, or stand at a kiosk or whatever, I don’t feel like I need to leave a tip.

What do you guys think? Like I’m going to give the example of Panera Bread. So you go into Panera, and you go to the little kiosk, and you order your food, and you pull out your own credit card, you swipe it, you do the whole transaction. It always asks you for a tip, tip amount, and then you find your own table, you pour your own drinks, you know, you get called to pick up your order.

They scream your name, and you come and pick. Why am I expected to leave a tip for that? I mean, to me it doesn’t make sense. Obviously, I can see tipping a server at a sit-down restaurant because they do a lot for you at your table.

They pour your wine, they pour your water, you know, whatever. They bring your food. They come and check on you and see if you need anything else.

And I can see tipping a delivery driver, even if it’s for pizza or DoorDash or Uber Eats or whatever, where they actually pick up your food and they drive it to your house. But to stand in line and someone behind a cash register hands you your food in a bag, that should not be a tipping situation. So what do you guys think? You can give me a call and talk about that, even as I go on to other subjects because I’m going on to other subjects.

You can tell me what steams your beans, either as a server or as a customer at a restaurant, 303-477-5600. And remember when there used to be a smoking section at a restaurant back when Colorado used to allow smoking? Well, the whole United States did allow smoking in the restaurants. I always thought it was funny to have a smoking section when smoke travels all over the place.

I saw a sign once that said a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool, which is kind of true. I remember being at a restaurant with some friends one time when you could still smoke, and I was a smoker, so we sat in the smoking section. The smoking and the non-smoking sections were only divided by like a lattice-type material, and we were sitting at the very edge of that section, of the smoking section, closest to the lattice, and there was another table of people directly on the other side.

So we were all smoking, and the table on the non-smoking side got their beans steamed because the smoke kept drifting over to them. So the smoking section in that regard is pretty stupid. After I quit smoking, the smell of cigarettes used to trigger me.

When I would go to my mom and dad’s house, and mom, if you’re listening, sorry, but you know how I feel about this. I felt like I was choking to death every time that I was at their house. It was so overwhelming.

So I can understand why people get irritated by sitting right next to a table full of smokers. So this is going to be in the category of this won’t go over well, and I’m completely switching gears right now, but this is starting out with some things that absolutely concern me to no end. So the G7 leaders, and that’s the, you know, we all know it’s the U.K. and it’s the Biden administration, leader from Australia and whatever, but they have decided to give a whole bunch of money to Ukraine in the form of a loan out of, guess where, frozen Russian assets.

So most of those assets, $280 billion is being held in Europe, and the Ukraine will get a $50 billion loan to be paid back over time. Yeah. They’re going to pay that back with what? I have no idea.

Magic beans, I’m guessing. This is a significant escalation in this economic war against Moscow, and as you know, you know, Russia was removed from the Swiss system, and they have, their beans are steamed, okay? Russia has vowed to retaliate. So that’s just fantastic.

Having said that, I want to read you something or just touch on something from RT.com. This is from Dmitry Medvedev. I think that’s how you say his name. There should be virtually no limits on how Moscow retaliates for the maximum damage.

The former president has argued Moscow should use every opportunity to inflict maximum damage on Western nations that have declared a war without rules on Russia. So every weakness of the U.S. and its allies should be exploited to undermine them and obstruct life for their citizens, the Russian official said on Thursday, reacting to the latest round of sanctions announced by Washington earlier this week. He says, quote, are they afraid that we would transfer our arms to the enemies of the Western world? We should send every kind of weapon except nuclear for now, Medvedev wrote on social media.

He continues, are they afraid of anarchy and crime waves in large cities? We should help disrupt their municipal authorities. So it goes on, the article goes on to say Russia could trigger a war in space, wage a psychological warfare campaign against Western citizens so that they tremble under blankets in their cozy homes, and unleash a tsunami of fake news to turn their life into a never-ending nightmare in which they cannot distinguish reality from the wildest fiction. So you guys have heard me talk about AI and all the stuff that they’re capable of, so, oh boy.

It goes on, restrictions on Moscow exchange and banks, fate of the ruble, key takeaways from new U.S. sanctions. Moscow should obliterate their energy infrastructure, industry, transport, banking, and social services, and still fear over an imminent collapse of all critical infrastructure, according to Medvedev, who currently serves as deputy chair of the Russian Security Council. The latest round of American restrictions against Russia entities targets energy, metals, and mining, as well as the financial sector, obviously.

Among other things, it has forced the Moscow Stock Exchange to suspend all trade in the U.S. dollar and the euro. The package is one of the biggest since the Ukraine conflict escalated into open hostilities in February of 2022, impacting over $100 million in trade between Russia and its foreign partners, according to estimates from the U.S. Department of Treasury. It says Medvedev claimed that a campaign of maximum damage, as outlined in his post, was preferable to simply ignoring the Western pressure and urged Russian citizens to act accordingly.

So, I don’t know. I think we should be concerned about this. I don’t think Russia wants conflict with the U.S., but it seems like at every turn the United States is just poking, poking, poking, poking.

We’re begging for it. And that’s kind of where I am, where a lot of conservatives are real conservatives, not rhinos, not the Republican establishment. I’m talking about real conservatives who don’t want war, who just want to be left alone.

That’s what’s going on. We have a bunch of warmongering cretins in power right now, and that’s what they want. The military industrial complex is very, very real.

And as a result, Pennsylvania Senator Doug Mastriano says there will likely be a draft. And for you guys to hear that, for anybody to hear that, and to think, well, I guess, you know, whatever. It is what it is.

No. No, it’s not. This draft, supposedly, if it happens, will be men and women ages 18 to 25.

So if you’re okay with that, I’m really glad that the liberal loons are okay with sending your children off to fight some war in some other country because the deep state continues to poke the bear and provoke them into conflict because it’s being done deliberately. You know it is. I’m certainly not okay with any of it.

And if we’re being honest, it’s my belief that if any soy boy, milk toast, liberal hipster gets a notice that they’re being drafted, there’ll be a lot of draft dodging going on. I can tell you that right now. These fools don’t have the testosterone levels to fight a kinetic war with the cast of Sesame Street, let alone engage in a land battle with Russia.

Are you freaking kidding me? So one indicator that our country is getting weaker, and we are getting weaker by the day, is the crime, the rampant crime in our nation’s largest cities. So this, I’m not going to read the whole thing, but this article is titled Admission of Failure, Democratic Cities Stop Reporting Crime Stats to FBI. I want you to let that headline sink into you, okay? This is from Tyler Durden with Zero Hedge, and it was titled, or it’s dated June 11, 2024.

The Biden administration’s statisticians at the Bureau of Labor Statistics have painted a rosy economic picture for the job market, yet voters know damn well the economy is in a persistent inflation storm sparked by Bidenomics. That’s why President Biden’s reflection odds are sinking by the month. The most recent BLS jobs report shows how absurd these reports get by the month, and there is no shame by the government statisticians as working poor Americans struggle to pay rent and put food on the table.

Context about the political BLS is crucial to understanding that data messaging doesn’t stop there. The White House has recently unleashed its propaganda cannons claiming nationwide crime has plunged to a half-century low. If you can believe that they even can imagine stuff like this, it blows my mind.

The problem with this narrative is at its odds with imploding progressive cities that do not uphold law and order and fail to arrest and prosecute criminals. Plus, on top of all this, Democrats have flooded the nation with 10 million illegal aliens. So let’s begin with MSNBC’s Kyle Griffin, who posted on X the latest FBI crime stats that show murder, rape, robbery, theft, and property crime has plummeted across the board nationwide.

His tweet says, The FBI just announced that crime has plummeted in the first quarter of 2024. According to the report, murder decreased by 26%, rape decreased by 25%, robbery decreased by 17%, aggravated assault decreased by 12%, reported property crime decreased by 15.1%. This data is at odds with reality. Recently, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre touted violent crime is at a near 50-year low.

Check out what she had to say. Under this president’s leadership, President Biden, violent crime is at a nearly 50-year low. Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of law enforcement.

She goes on to talk about how she, you know, her, not really her, but the Biden administration and this administration has, you know, crime is so much better and nobody’s being threatened and everything is honky-dory and crime is at a 50-year low, which, of course, how can these people get away with saying stuff like this? And the more time you spend on TikTok or Instagram Reels or anything, you understand that this is just such bogus BS. When Americans from every corner of the country are seeing the opposite of what she’s saying, since the onset of social media, when everybody has a phone in their hand, with a camera, everybody can see what’s going on. There’s no hiding the truth anymore, but they can still sit up there and say this stuff.

So in a tweet from Bonchy Red State is the account, and this was also dated June 11th, so this was in response to Kyle Griffin’s tweet. It says, according to the CPRC, one factor contributing to the ostensible dip in violent crime is that almost 40% of local law enforcement agencies are no longer transmitting their information to the National Federal Bureau of Investigation database. And he says, this is a quote, in 2021, 37% of police departments stopped reporting crime data to the FBI, including large departments for Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York.

And for other jurisdictions, like Baltimore and Nashville, crimes are being underreported or undercounted. This leaves a large gap. By 2021, the real crime data collected by the FBI represented only 63% of police departments overseeing just 65% of the population.

When compared to pre-2021…